Not really voodoo, i called my cam company (howards) and asked what drive i need for this cam, they said bronze so i bought a pump shaft with the gear on it. I do get your frustration though.
Thanks I have a Howard's cam as well. While they didn't recommend bronze to me they did answer my 2 questions. 1 is it a billet cam.
2 should I use a melonized distributor gear with it.
The answer to both questions was yes.
While trying to figure out if I should use a bronze gear vs melonized, I found lots of contradiction with bronze gears. Mainly to do with them being a wear part. But everything regarding the melonized gears was pretty much agreed on, that they last pretty much forever. Now forever is a long time, but the gist of it was that they do last.
How many miles do you have on yours? How's it holding up?
Thanks.